Download NVIDIA GeForce 310.64 Beta Driver

Here you can download the NVIDIA GeForce 310.64 Beta 32/64-bit driver. This GeForce driver is a BETA-candidate and is recommended for best results with blockbuster games in this holidays season. The GeForce 310.64 drivers have been optimized for Far Cry 3, which means up to 38% faster perf.

This driver is mainly optimized for Far Cry 3, the other perf increasements you see mentioned blow have already been included in the previous driver.

GeForce R310 Drivers

The result values depend on your GPU and system configuration:

GeForce GTX 680:

up to 38% in Far Cry 3

up to 26% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

up to 16% in Battlefield 3

up to 18% on Assassin's Creed III

up to 9% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

up to 6% for Warfighter: Medal of Honor

up to 6% in StarCraft II

up to 6% in Dragon Age II

up to 6% in Batman: Arkham City

up to 5% in STALKER: Call of Pripyat

GeForce GTX 660:

up to 40% in Far Cry 3

up to 24% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

up to 10% in Battlefield 3

Up to 7% in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

up to 5% in Dragon Age II

up to 5% on Assassin's Creed III

Up to 4% in Batman: Arkham City

Up to 4% in Warfighter: Medal of Honor

NVIDIA SLI Technology - The following SLI profiles are added or updated:

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That is exactly what people used to say about AMD drivers! Not any more though!

OT but not true, it took them months to fix the zero core bug and then it was reintroduced, and that was a WHQL driver. Nvidia seems to be a bit overextended with r310 though, or maybe it's just because of the p-state changes with the latest betas or whatever, 310.33 is working fine for me, problems first started with later drivers. Remember all of those are still beta though, I doubt those issues will exist with the WHQL drivers.

Dcrawler
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#4469899 Posted on: 12/03/2012 04:35 PM

I see there was a profile update today - anyone know what it fixed/broke?

No update when I try.

DJ_Casper
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#4469945 Posted on: 12/03/2012 05:35 PM

So my card gets hotter and I lose performance and I should be happy?

How the drivers can make ur card hotter? )) Clean ur fans and case from discoteque cockroaches and dust

texasrattler
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#4470077 Posted on: 12/03/2012 08:42 PM

How the drivers can make ur card hotter? )) Clean ur fans and case from discoteque cockroaches and dust

U obvious don't know drivers very well. Any driver can have a effect on your card. nVidia a couple of years ago released some drivers that actually damaged ppls cards due to a fan issue. So yes drivers can cause damage when they r not properly developed. They have been known to not properly use the fans, cause more heat(that will happen when ur fan doesnt work), can cause latency spikes and they list can go on and on. Now not everything is related to drivers but the point is, yes its possible for drivers to cause problems/damage of all kinds.

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#4470090 Posted on: 12/03/2012 08:52 PM

U obvious don't know drivers very well. Any driver can have a effect on your card. nVidia a couple of years ago released some drivers that actually damaged ppls cards due to a fan issue. So yes drivers can cause damage when they r not properly developed. They have been known to not properly use the fans, cause more heat(that will happen when ur fan doesnt work), can cause latency spikes and they list can go on and on. Now not everything is related to drivers but the point is, yes its possible for drivers to cause problems/damage of all kinds.

This is true - but also remember as the drivers mature and games GPU usage goes up the temps may be hotter too, also limiting overclocking. Everyone immediately thinks it's a fan profile issue, it's not. I'm water cooled and since I've had my 680 I know that more games use more of my GPU and thus it will run a few degrees hotter as that happens.

I love when a new set of drivers come out, people see higher game usage and hotter temps and assume there is something wrong with the drivers. Nope, it's just using your hardware more, higher temps or the ability to OC being limited are the side effect of that too...

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#4470161 Posted on: 12/03/2012 10:15 PM
This is true - but also remember as the drivers mature and games GPU usage goes up the temps may be hotter too, also limiting overclocking. Everyone immediately thinks it's a fan profile issue, it's not. I'm water cooled and since I've had my 680 I know that more games use more of my GPU and thus it will run a few degrees hotter as that happens.

I love when a new set of drivers come out, people see higher game usage and hotter temps and assume there is something wrong with the drivers. Nope, it's just using your hardware more, higher temps or the ability to OC being limited are the side effect of that too...

Very good point! That makes alot of sense.

Now all we need to do is put this as a MUST SEE sticky on the driver forum sections and we can save alot of people saying this now!

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#4470190 Posted on: 12/03/2012 10:47 PM
In addition, some people forget that using higher quality Anti Aliasing and other features also brings the temperature higher up.

As for FarCry 3, didn't experience any stuttering or slow downs in fps under combat with the drivers original profile (Direct X 11)

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#4470228 Posted on: 12/03/2012 11:43 PM
All drivers newer then 306.97 makes World of Warcraft hang for me (screen goes black if im on skype i can still speak but i cant switch out of the black screen and i have to press the reset button). All other games work fine tho. The crashes are random in Wow, it can crash after 10min or 5hours, altho with 306.97 it never hangs.

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#4470234 Posted on: 12/03/2012 11:54 PM

As for FarCry 3, didn't experience any stuttering or slow downs in fps under combat with the drivers original profile (Direct X 11)

I think those problems are exclusive to SLI users. Didn't see anyone with a single GPU complain about it.

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#4470294 Posted on: 12/04/2012 01:01 AMSo Disappointed

This is terrible today is launch for premium users BF3: AFTERMATH.And we still have error:Bf3 stopped working i am on 306.23 driver becouse 306.97 driver on idle running 3d clocks,so my MSI gtx 660 ti pe edition not seen good and new driver for a looooong time.

#4470311 Posted on: 12/04/2012 01:15 AM
AMD released new driver that improve FC3 performance up to 25%, probably gonna take a good lead, we see with the new benches...

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#4470334 Posted on: 12/04/2012 01:50 AM

This is terrible today is launch for premium users BF3: AFTERMATH.And we still have error:Bf3 stopped working i am on 306.23 driver becouse 306.97 driver on idle running 3d clocks,so my MSI gtx 660 ti pe edition not seen good and new driver for a looooong time.

Aftermath is out? Damn had no idea. Starting download now!

Btw, I previously reported that a reinstall of 301.64 fixed the crashes for me, but ever since I downclocked my cards by 50mhz (which I normally do) the game started crashing again.

After the reinstall I did not apply my download, just had MSI AB for it's overlay. Now I get crashes but I'm not sure if it's only because of the downclock as I didn't get the chance to test it extensively.

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#4470353 Posted on: 12/04/2012 02:16 AM
Aftermath won't start until Dec 4th for Premium accounts. Some people said they saw a start date of Dec 3 2012 in places. I see servers that have players but when I try to join it says I have to download it, but nothing shows up within origin even though it downloaded last night.

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#4470373 Posted on: 12/04/2012 02:42 AM
These are running great in Planetside2, Firefall, Chivalry and some others. Planetside2 is noticeably smoother (although there could have also been game optimizations that helped with that). Overall happy. 660ti and Win7.